Rhodesia: Whites on Wheels

It hardly handled like the R.A.F. Spitfire he'd flown in World War II, but Rhodesian
Prime Minister Ian Smith was willing to give it a go-around anyway"to epitomize
the spirit of the moment." Back and forth along a Salisbury thoroughfare he pedaled and
puffed on his new bicycle. Then, with a wrenching left turn that
resembled a sideways Immelmann, he braked to a halt. "My cook-boy has a
better bike than this," guffawed Ian. "Good old Smithy!" laughed the
office workers who were watching.

Smith's performance last week was in aid of gas rationing, which
Britain's oil embargo had...